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The top of a fire truck at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport was crushed Thursday after it was struck by a plane's wing.
According to NBCDFW.com, the fire truck with medics was near the gate, waiting for the plane which had a medical emergency on board.
One passenger on the plane saw the driver of the fire truck: "He was looking in the mirror like, 'What did we just get hit by?'"
There were no injuries and passengers on the plane say the person with the medical emergency appeared alert and was talking.
NBCDFW.com's full story is here.
Wonder if someone will question why we send million dollar ladder trucks on a medical call?
OK I'll bite, why do they send really expensive apparatus on a medical call? Is it because it's cool? Is it to show off their big rigs? OR WHAT?
While I was chief of my department, we had SOPs which spelled out response appropriate apparatus, medical call you get a squad and an ambulance, fire call you get the fire trucks, rescue call you get a rescue squad, pretty simple, I thought.
some places run their closest piece to a medical call, a diabetic case is pretty severe so why question this. If the ladder company was the closest piece of apparatus with medical personel on board, why not send it. Especially in the case of a ALS type incident.
It doesn't matter if they send a ladder truck, an engine, and ambulance or an ice-cream truck! What matters is the trained responders and appropriate equipment that the vehicle has on board.
maybe someone will question why you are wasting money on million dollar ladder trucks when you can get a fully functioning piece for less.
Ok, this is the reason. If you have the fire truck at a medical call then when the fire call comes in you dont have to go back to the stattion to get the fire truck to respond to your fire. I would hope that when my house catches fire I dont have to wait until they go back to the station to ge tthe engine or the truck.
@phillip I was hoping someone had already said it. Our station has a dedicated med truck however if we need more than two responders (or sometimes just because we can) we roll a truck so we don’t leave the airfield vulnerable. No way we would make 3 min if we had to roll back to station to get the pumpers and get on scene. I haven’t read the report for this accident but I’m sure the driver could have placed himself in a safer location, unless of course I’m wrong and the pilot wasnt paying attention but this seems (to me) unlikely.